Paramount Sets Christmas Day Release for ‘Selma’

*Director Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King, Jr. film “Selma” will open in limited release on Christmas Day before going wide on January 9, 2015, reports Deadline.com.

The film stars David Oyelowo as the iconic civil rights leader and tracks King’s struggle to secure voting rights for all people, culminating in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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